Odds and Gods: How Chance Became a Science

For most of human history, the future was left to fate, luck, and the heavens. Humanity didn't manage uncertainty, we simply endured it. But a brilliant and eccentric lineage of gamblers, philosophers, and mathematicians decided to measure the unknown.

Inspired partially by Peter L. Bernstein’s classic Against the Gods, this talk traces an intellectual bloodline of risk, exploring its family tr